The European Market Coupling Company (EMCC) operates an interim tight volume coupling (ITVC) that implicitly allocates the interconnection capacities between Central West European (CWE) and Nordic (Nordpool) day-ahead electricity spot markets. Though it is to be replaced by a single price...

An important question in the dynamic European wholesale markets for electricity is whether to define the geographical market at the level of an individual member state or more broadly. We show that if we currently take the traditional approach by considering for each member state whether there...

Funktionierender Wettbewerb auf Strommärkten wird im entscheidenden Maße vom freien Netzzugang bestimmt. Dies gilt sowohl auf nationaler Ebene, vor dem Hintergrund eines europäischen Strombinnenmarktes aber auch für grenzüberschreitende Übertragungsleitungen. Deren Kapazität allerdings...

An important question in the dynamic European wholesale markets for electricity is whether to define the geographical market at the level of an individual member state or more broadly. We show that if we currently take the traditional approach by considering for each member state whether there...